Munich city center at the best shopping time. Crowds stream through the department store doors. The scenery freezes as a bloodied young woman staggers out of the elevator. Vera Lanz and her colleagues are sure a little later: the victim Sabine Heuchert narrowly escaped a serial killer. Details point to similarities in three other unsolved murder cases. Coincidence drives the investigators into Toni Marschaber's arms. Sabine Heuchert believes that he can identify him as the culprit by his smell. But Marschaber's boss Eberhard Hallhuber can also be linked to one of the victims. And another interesting similarity connects the two suspects: Both are represented by celebrity lawyer Xaver Baumgartner. The investigations come to a standstill when another woman's body is found. Does Vera Lanz have to do with a footboard offender? Or was the previous method of investigation a big mistake?